Andrei Arlovski and Jens Pulver will try to continue their recent resurgence when they fight for ONE FC next month.

Arlovski (17-9), a former UFC heavyweight champion, will fight Soa Palelei (17-3). Pulver (26-16-1), the first UFC lightweight champ, will take on Eric Kelly (7-0). Both Arlovski and Pulver confirmed their inclusion on Twitter.

“ONE FC: Pride of a Nation” is scheduled for Aug. 31 at Smart Araneta Coliseum in Manila, Phillipines.

Arlovski has won two straight with third-round knockouts under the ProElite banner. In August 2011, he stopped Ray Lopez in the headliner of ProElite’s event in Honolulu. He followed that up with a head-kick knockout of Travis Fulton at the promotion’s event in Moline, Ill.

Those wins erased a four-fight skid for the Russian, who suffered setbacks to Fedor Emelianenko, Brett Rogers, Antonio Silva and Sergei Kharitonov during a rough stretch lasting more than two years.

Arlovski won the UFC’s interim heavyweight title against Tim Sylvia at UFC 51 and defended it twice before surrendering it to Sylvia at UFC 59. He then lost a rematch at UFC 61. Despite winning three straight for the promotion after the back-to-back losses to Sylvia, Arlovski left the promotion when his contract ran out. His loss to Emelianenko came under the Affliction banner, followed by three straight losses for Strikeforce.

Palelei, an Australian, will enter the fight on a seven-fight win streak, including a 12-second TKO of Bob Sapp this past May. Palelei is a PRIDE and UFC veteran, though he lost his lone fights in each promotion. All seven wins in his current run have been by knockout or TKO, and all 17 of his career wins have been by stoppage.

Pulver has found a bit of a second wind for his career after a stretch that saw him lose eight of nine fights – including 0-2 in the UFC and 1-5 in the WEC. After one more loss outside the Zuffa banner, Pulver has gone 4-2, including a win in April over Jesse Thorton in a flyweight bout in Texas.

Kelly is the featherweight champ for the Phillipines’ Universal Reality Combat Championship. The first six wins of his unbeaten career came by first-round submission, including five rear-naked chokes. He has gone 2-0 for ONE FC, including a unanimous decision win this past month against Bae Young Kwon.

Also expected to compete on the card is former DREAM bantamweight and featherweight champ Bibiano Fernandes, who briefly was linked to a fight on Saturday’s UFC 149 card before announcing contract talks didn’t work out. And Shinya Aoki, though not yet announced, is likely to make his ONE FC debut on the same show.

A press conference announcing the card is expected on Wednesday in the Phillipines.

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